Issue 10.1
Winter 2020
Bone Bouquet is a biannual print journal publishing new writing by female and non-binary poets, from artists both established and emerging. We aim to highlight the important literary work of women and non-binary people, who are often underrepresented in the writing community and popular media. Rather than personal politics, our criteria are vibrance and surprise. Our goal is to provide an additional arena where these writers and their readership can find one another, growing the writers’ audience while building their reputations as artists.
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Bone Bouquet seeks to publish the best new writing by female and non-binary poets, from artists both established and emerging. We are especially interested in work that breaks with tradition, creating new forms by dwelling in thought rather than seeking epiphany..
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Catalog
What are you reading for?
- What are you reading for?This started as an idea for an event. At that event, featured poets would talk about a book (in any genre) they’ve read recently and what purpose it served for them. In the live in-person format, the folks assembled could then talk about the book (if anyone else had read … Read more
- Carolyn Guinzioon The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett The “Dunnet Landing” stories take place at the edge of the continent, where Maine meets the Atlantic. They are as much about a landscape as they are about people. The stories have a strange, singular effect on me. The … Read more
- Leah Claire KaminskiOn Llama Llama Red Pajamas by Anna Dewdney and other books Being a parent has washed away the capitalist mindset I accidentally adopted towards reading when I decided to become a “serious writer”. You can’t apply extractive capitalism to literature and expect to keep really engaging with it. So I … Read more
- Freesia McKeeon Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil I recently put together a short curriculum on the poetic fragment. Afterwards, as often happens in teaching—especially with conceptual material—I started seeing signs of the fragment everywhere. Was a slice of an apple a fragment (fragment of fruit)? Was the stray blue jay … Read more
- K. M. EnglishOn Lake Michigan by Daniel Borzutzky I came to Daniel Borzutzky’s Lake Michigan with a problem. I’m working on a manuscript, situated in California’s central valley where I live, that looks at an ever-deepening homeless crisis and reactions to public suffering. I am trying to look beyond a bystander’s gaze into questions … Read more
News
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Bone Bouquet #9.2 on Verse Daily
January 8 brought Shanna Compton’s Issue 9.2 contribution to Verse Daily. From January 7: Kristi Maxwell’s poem “Violin” from Issue 9.2 was featured. Zefyr Lisowski’s poem was featured on January 6.
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Updates!
Issue 9.1 is available for pre-order, Issue 7.1 has just 14 copies remaining, and Issue 7.2 is sold out and available as a free PDF!
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